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Thursday, September 23, 2010

So I took it on myself to make some changes...

My husband is fast developing a reputation as theskywatching photographer in our house, so I decided I simply must assert dominion over my own blog by taking some sky photos myself.

Then, when I looked out the window and saw a beautiful sunset happening, I had to run outside, somewhat underdressed for the occasion (pajamas and slippers), which meant I couldn't hang out on the street for very long. I snapped a few shots of the sunset from the road in front of our house, then took myself and my camera to the back yard where I did some artsy things with the leaves in the foreground.

Quite smug I am, too, actually; even though I haven't yet managed to get myself (fully dressed, of course) down to the end of the street to shoot some sunsets at the edge of the coulee where there are no wires, cars, or houses in the way. O well, it gives me something to which to aspire. "A woman's reach should exceed her grasp or what are The Heavens for?" (to paraphrase Browning in a Skywatchian kind of way).

Therefore, I am pleased to present a brave but heretofore unacknowledged photographer in her own right (and her own write) ...insert drumroll here...Kay L. Davies, all the way from Beautiful British Columbia via beautiful small town Alberta! (I always do things the long way 'round, but here I am, and here are my photos, outside our little hobbit house outside Medicine Hat, Alberta.)

Hi Kay, Brilliant sunset photos, taken while in PJ's and all! These images reflect the you. Well done my friend. I love the sentence a photographer in her own write! Beautiful. I like your style. I also LOVE the quote: and would like to copy it in a handwrittenn notebook I keep in my desk drawer. Have a wonderful day. Blessings Jo

By the time I was finished reading I was clapping for you Kay! Rah, rah, rah, you GO grrl!! And what a gorgeous orange you captured!

[No need to worry about typos on my site! I knew without reading your second note you meant calm... I spend a good part of the day "chatting" (ie typing in Skype) with colleagues around the globe so I am good at reading words with missed or transposed letters :-D !]

Thanks, Keith. I'm glad you enjoy my blog.Alberta itself, of course, is a fairly large province (#6 in Canada by area, #4 by population).There are only two large cities, though: Calgary (#3 in Canada) and Edmonton (#5), and a few smaller cities (none with more than 85,000 people), but lots and lots of small towns, mostly farming and/or ranching communities.Of the 3,700,00 people in Alberta, 1,585,000 live outside the two major metropolitan areas.

One major shopping brand in UK has now banned early shoppers from wearing pyjamas! lol Yes some people actually shop in PJ's & slippers so if you lived in that particular area of UK I am sure you would be free to wander about snapping photos all day! lol! Fantastic skywatching - I fear our skies are now destined to be dark, black and full of rain!